Surprisingly, at least to me, there's a very low renovation in the chorus of teams competing in the World Cup 7s: twelve nations have qualified for the final phase of all the three editions. Two of the other teams qualified for San Francisco 2018, Ireland and Fiji, were absent in the first edition but present in the second. So we will have just two new entries: Papua New Guinea and the North America winner. I expected more surprises from 7s.

Canalina wrote:Surprisingly, at least to me, there's a very low renovation in the chorus of teams competing in the World Cup 7s: twelve nations have qualified for the final phase of all the three editions. Two of the other teams qualified for San Francisco 2018, Ireland and Fiji, were absent in the first edition but present in the second. So we will have just two new entries: Papua New Guinea and the North America winner. I expected more surprises from 7s.

Once a team has qualified for a big event or two, and gained he experience that comes from that, it seems really hard to anyone else to catch up - so really it is not too surprising that we have not had much "churn". In fact its quite hard to think many teams who might be capable of upseting the established teams in the immediate future (Kazakhstan? Wales?)

Brazil: qualified to the Rugby World Cup 7s, Hong Kong 7s and Canada's round of the Women's Sevens Series. 13th South American title for Brazil, all of them unbeaten!Argentina: qualified to the Hong Kong 7sPeru: first time they reach the top 3! Congrats for the Peruvians!

So now they will not play a continental championship for the whole 2018 or there will be a 2017 championship, a 2017/18 championship and a 2018 championship?

Congratulations to Peru, but the game of almost all the teams appeared basic to me in the few matches I watched. Women rugby in South America seems still on the first steps, except for Brazil and partially Argentina

So now they will not play a continental championship for the whole 2018 or there will be a 2017 championship, a 2017/18 championship and a 2018 championship?

I guess it will be in the end of the year now. So probably we'll have a tournament in 2018. And there is also the South American Games (South American Olympics) in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in May, with rugby sevens.

This tournament was the Torneo Valentín Martínez.

The men's South American Sevens was last played in 2015. Now teams play the Punta del Este Sevens, Viña Sevens, etc.

Sudamérica Rugby used Valentin Martinez as its official South American Women's Championship.

And Punta and Viña are now officialy the Sudamérica Rugby Sevens Series.